New suburb to ease Mudgee's housing shortage

A new suburb for more than 4000 residents is set to be built at Mudgee.

Developers have asked for an area of land outside the town to be rezoned, so they can build thousands of new homes.

The Mid-Western Regional Council's general manager Warwick Bennett says it will help ease the shortage of housing in the district which has arisen due to the mining boom.

"This is what we see as the partial solution to the mining boom and the need to get houses built in our region," he said.

"We're doing this one in Mudgee, we've got another lined up in Gulgong which we will be able to announce shortly, and so there's lots of really good opportunities to cater with the boom that we're currently experiencing."

He says it is a great boost for the region.

"We are expecting development on this to start within the next 12 months, so it's very exciting.

"We would expect that this development will happen relatively quickly.

"I would say that the development should be finished within four to five years."